stortfordandrew.bsky.social
UK Conservative | Africa born | Brixton raised | Career in Finance | Live in Stortford | Brexiteer | Kemi-fan
Stood for election in Parsonage ward in 2023
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Quite the opposite - it's the English that lose out. The problem is England is 85% of UK. Devo to Wales, Scotland, NI makes sense. Agreeing the borders of the English regions has always been the contentious issue.
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/3 What control does the Palestinian "government" have? Falls well short of sovereign control - no control of borders, no jurisdiction over settlers... Lots of reasons why Palestine is simply not a state and has never been one.
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/2 Where are the recognised borders? The 1949 armistice lines were controlled by Jordan & Egypt never "Palestine". They have been rejected by Israel, in particular East Jerusalem and explicitly in Oslo
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Palestine is not and has never been a country in any meaningful sense. Think Montevideo: Where is the recognised authority? The PA has had no authority over Gaza for ages. /..
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Is that a "yes"?
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Just clarifying are saying you think "lab leak" is a "conspiracy theory"?
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Trumps DEI may be true or may be untrue I dont know. But it certainly isn't "baseless":
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
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I'm an outside observer but are there any critical reasons why? Both seem left of Labour - are they a different kind of left?
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I hope France does this and I hope the UK offers Denmark some of our troops too.
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How is this "speeding it up"? The current rate of progress is consistent with other candidates in the past.
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We should definitely have more reporting of "dont care" and "dont know" for these kinds of surveys!!
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Is there any prospect that the Greens and the Corbynist independents will get together in some kind of alliance?
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To point out the obvious, Pakistan already has nuclear weapons. Or are they not Islamist?
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How strange? The report also identified environmentalists and left wing activists as extremist groups but that doesn't get a mention from the Guardian. Wonder why?
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Yep. I've witnessed the same electric feeling with the Southport Riots, the Marching Season and the Brixton Riots. Freedom mixed in with jeopardy - a toxic mix.
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I'm confused. When people like me said Assisted Dying would be a slippery slope we were told the conditions were very strict and would never change. And yet...
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Polite, sarcastic and patronising, surely? Isn't that what the British are known for?
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I'll do it! Do you have a date?
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Kier Starmer should declare that henceforth the North Atlantic has been renamed the "British Ocean"
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Agreed. Let's call it "England".
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Freedom should be the default. Explain why it needed to be suppressed?
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Good to see the local Labour MP and Labour Defence Minister are backing this change to the law that Kemi called for. Still think its "crass" and "plain wrong"?
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Irrelevant information to who? Public are reasonable to want to know background on why shocking events occur. The restrictions we have on trial information are way too restrictive and should be radically pared back.
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The government is determined to weaken protections and force through even more unsustainable development!
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ICC loves a great headline. But how exactly are they going to arrest him? And if they can't what's the point?
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In what way?
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Revolut?
Technically not a deposit taker in the UK but still regulated and just as big and important as BoL
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How about the death penalty?
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There is a genocide going on today in the Arab world. Innocent people are being murdered because of the colour of their skin.
Not Gaza - Sudan. Yet you never hear a peep from leftist media in the west.
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How much will this cost the British taxpayer? And why?
#bringbackdeathpenalty
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I prefer BlueSky to Twitter/X, obviously, that's why I'm here. But I still recognise that X has a FAR bigger reach, active daily user base etc etc. BlueSky has a LONG way to go before it becomes "new Twitter"
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Very sad to see them wanting to wreak the considerable improvements that - objectively, measurably - we have made as a country in recent years. I hope they see sense and water these down.
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One of the BIG mistakes we Conservatives made in the last government was we stopped being pro-business. We never stopped being pro big business, but we forgot about the mid tier, SMEs and self-employed. Hope Kemi can reset and restore this.
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Yeah clearly no Hamas supporters allowed at these demos www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...
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Can the UNFCCC amend its rules to allow subnational entities to join? eg California?
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If legal advice is 'forcing' our leaders to lie to us, we need to change the law.
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How?
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Just to out-nerd you: wouldn't HHI be a better measure?
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This division of uk politics into "Tory" vs "Non-Tory" just doesn't exist anymore. Plenty of LibDems where I live would choose Tory over Labour if forced to choose.
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This is exasperating. Why can't the pro-Hamas demonstrators at least see that them marching past a synagogue on Saturday might be intimidating to Jewish worshippers? And just follow the perfectly reasonable police rules that aim to protect freedom of worship.
Throw the book at the lot of them.
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Here's a thought: can the WHO amend its rules to admit sub-states as members? eg California?